CoinDesk Podcast Network Chainlink "Runtime Environment" Condenses Months of Work into Days - Sergey Nazarov
Nov 8, 2025
Sergey Nazarov, Co-founder of Chainlink and expert in decentralized oracle networks, introduces the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), a groundbreaking tool designed to simplify advanced smart contract creation. He highlights how CRE condenses development time from months to days, enabling institutions like UBS to launch tokenized funds efficiently. Sergey emphasizes the critical need for privacy in institutional applications, showcasing how CRE can maintain selective privacy while ensuring transparency, setting the stage for innovative cross-chain solutions.
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Bridge DeFi And Institutions
- Combine DeFi builders and institutional teams to accelerate real-world adoption.
- Use events like SmartCon to foster direct collaboration because institutions and DeFi will be each other's customers.
Orchestration Replaces Fragmented Code
- The complexity of advanced smart contracts stems from coordinating many chains and diverse oracle types.
- Chainlink's CRE creates a single orchestration layer to define that multi-chain, multi-oracle application in one piece of code.
Compress Launch Timelines
- Condense development timelines by using CRE to turn months of integration work into days or hours.
- Adopt CRE templates and orchestration to accelerate launching advanced contracts.